Ward Camp!

From June 13-17 Carlos and I went up to Bellows AB and attended our Ward Camp.  Luke joined us on the last day/night.  We had a fantastic time!!  I wish I had taken more pics, but that's ok.  We spent the first day setting up camp and then went down to the beach for a couple hours before dinner.  I bought us a new tent this year since our old one was just a 3 person tent and that would not fit a pack'n'play plus all our stuff and my air mattress so the upgrade was much needed.  I LOVE our new tent!  We got the Coleman Instant Tent and let me just say that it is by far the coolest tent I've ever seen (or owned for that matter).  It literally took less than 5 min to set up!  So if you are in the market for a new tent I highly recommend it! :)

Anyway here's how our week went:  We would get up at about 6 AM (thanks to it being bright outside by then and that's what would wake up Carlos) and then we would pretty much spend the rest of the day at the beach.  Carlos only took one 2 hour nap on the beach one day and all the other days I was lucky if he took a 30 min nap.  Luckily he at least he slept really well at night.  Carlos went to bed at about 8 PM every night and woke up with the sun at about 6 AM (It was LOADS of fun getting him to sleep in longer than that after that week...but we're back to getting up around 8 AM now which is a much more pleasant time for me than 6 AM). Every night we had a big group dinner and let me tell you, the food was AMAZING!  After dinner we would then have time to prepare kids for bed and then there was a devotional around the campfire.  I usually went to bed right after the devotional because I knew Carlos would show no mercy come 6 AM ha ha.  The second to last night I stayed up a little longer and played some games with a couple people.  I learned a new game called "Pirate Dice" from Pirates of the Caribbean.  It was super fun!  I might have to invest in a game myself :)  The last night we did skits which was fun.  Each auxiliary group had a skit (Relief Society, Primary, YM, YW, Priest Quorum, etc) and they were all so fun to watch and be a part of!  We got rained on really hard that last night though so it put a damper in the Movie Under The Stars for the little kids, but they still tried to watch it every time the rain let up for a few minutes.  Friday was just breaking camp day pretty much.  I'm really glad that I decided to go.  I had so much help with Carlos and I knew that he was having a good time with all the attention he was getting from the older kids.  Everyone just thought I was such a trooper, but I knew that there would be a helping hand just a few feet away so I didn't feel any kind of stress at all which was soo  nice!  Carlos even tried to keep me on my toes by having an eruption in his diaper while he was in his stroller so I got to enjoy cleaning that up and all I could do was laugh.  I'm surprised I didn't freak out to be honest.  And people stepped in and helped me clean his stroller while I cleaned him up.

Going to Camp made me realize just how lucky I am to have been in this Ward.  I will miss every one soo soo much!  It will be so hard to say good-bye to everyone :(  but the time has come for us to move on to a new chapter in our life.  I just hope I continue to get lucky and have another awesome Ward where ever we end up!

Here's some pics from the week.  Enjoy!

Beach babies

We love that the weather has been getting nicer the closer it gets to summer!  Carlos loves being outside, but he hates the sand and ocean ha ha.  Luckily Ko'Olina has grass so we can be at the beach and he can still run around without being upset (too much).  We took him just the 3 of us in the beginning of may and he refused to go in the sand or water for longer than oh say...5 seconds..ha ha.  I got some pics of him playing with his sand toys in the grass (my goofy kid).

The last week of may we went to Ko'Olina again with our friends the McMillan's and made him be in the sand and go into the ocean for a bit longer.  He spent most of the 2 hours we were there on the blanket though ha ha.  Luckily our friends have a one year old (Holden) too so they got to play with each other and share snacks :)

yay for big boy cups :)

sharing snacks with Holden

they decided to dump out the snacks making it easier to eat them too I guess ha ha

our beached whale ha ha

Wendy and Jake

fighting over the bowl turned into a cute pic

snuggle bug:)

We went to Bellows for Memorial Day (with the McMillan's) and Luke took Carlos into the water and freaked him out (the tide was really strong compared to Ko'Olina and Carlos did not like it one little bit).  We spent alot of time on the blanket under the beach umbrella :)  I didn't get any pics of us that day though, sorry.

I will really miss being able to go to the beach when ever we want so we are going to try to go as often as we can before we move in a couple of months. :)

Playing catch-up...

It's been kinda busy around the Sullivan house lately which makes it hard to keep up with blogging, but since Carlos is down for his afternoon nap I thought I'd take this time to try to catch up.

Lots of fun things happened during the last couple weeks of October!  Carlos now has 2 teeth on the bottom (with more coming in on the top I think) and he has been crawling and cruising like crazy now!  Good thing we invested in a couple safety gates ha ha.  Here's a pic of him after he pulled himself up.

Look at those chunky chunky legs!!  I just love this kid :)

On the 29th Luke and I were able to go on a date to see Cirque Du Soleil: Alegria thanks to my wonderful friend Cammie for watching Carlos for us!  We had a blast and it was the first night since Carlos was born that we got to do something with out him!  Definitely felt odd not having to hold him or keep him entertained, but it was a great night!

On the 30th we went out to breakfast in Kaneohe with some of Luke's co-workers and then went to Bellows AB Beach for a couple hours before heading home to go to the Stake Trunk-or-Treat that night.  Here are some pics of us at the beach.

 

waiting for the tide

you can't see this, but he's freaking out

as you can now see in this photo

now he likes it

stomp stomp stomp!

my cute beach baby

Halloween was so much fun this year!  I credit that to having our little man with us now :)  He was a monkey this year (and a darn tootin cute one at that!).  Instead of going Trick-or-Treating with him we decided to just go to the Trunk-or-Treat that my stake put on this year.  Here are a couple pics of us there with my friend Cammie and her little family.

Zorro and his side kick Monkey Boy (who got too hot in his costume so we took off the top)

my fussy monkey

Cammie and I
She was a Wench and I was a Vampiress

we put him back into his costume when we got home...he was one mad baby for a bit

my happy guy

showing of the tail

my big boy

look at those chompers!

me in my costume

me and my lil Monkey :)

in his "1st Halloween" jammies

this sums up their relationship...ha ha

I also got some cute pics of him with his pumpkin that I painted for him too.

love this boy

trying to pull himself up

tada!

my lil punkin with his pumpkin :)

Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween this year!  I know we did :)  And now I can blog about the current month :P